Help Gates School and capture your family's memories at the same time by signing up for a photo sessions with professional photographer, Jan Couch. From Saturday, 10/14/17 to Sunday, 10/15/17 families can have their photos taken between the hours of 9:00 am - 12:30 pm. The cost of this fundraiser is $45 for a 15 minute photo session up to 8 people. Families with more than 9 people will have a 20 minute photo session and the cost is $55.Our school receives $30 for each photo session. It will be delivered to you, along with any additional prints or digital images you choose for an additional cost.

Click here for more information about this event. We rely heavily on volunteers to make the Annual Family Photo Day a success. Please sign up here to volunteer.

A New Event: The Harvest Festival

We are excited to announce a new Gates event: The Harvest Festival. This event (formally the Fall Family Social) will feature a pumpkin contest, a pie walk, a bake sale, fun fall games, a selfie pumpkin station, donuts on a string contest, and more! This event will be taking place on Friday 11/03/17 at the Gates School. We will have more information in the coming weeks including a sign up for interested volunteers looking to help run crafts, games, and food.

The Gates Fun Run is Coming!

To give your child the best educational experience possible, we're raising funds for our school and we're hosting the Gates Fun Run to make this happen. Family and friends anywhere in the world can support our school by giving pledges toward the number of laps your student will run on the day of the Fun Run on 10/20/17. Our program will be kicking off with a pep rally on 10/11/17. Leading up to the Gates Fun Run, students will learn how to be brave and live with character through an educational character program called Castle Quest. You can help our school by following these four easy steps:

1. Register on funrun.com on pep rally day 10/11/17.

2. Connect to sponsors-friends and family who can donate to help our school.

3. As you make your pledges, you will be able to pay for your pledge right on funrun.com.

4.Cheer on your child the day of the Gates Fun Run 10/20/17.

Be on the lookout for this Pledge Crown, more details are coming soon!

All District Fundraising Event - Helping People Affected By Natural Disasters

As a community of educators committed to providing students with opportunities to exhibit empathy and compassion for others, we are uniting to respond to the recent hurricanes. We hope our effort will provide comfort and refuge in the event of future catastrophes.

All the schools in the Acton-Boxborough Regional School District and administrative offices will have collection boxes accepting cash and checks made payable to American Red Cross. All donations will be combined and a check will be issued on behalf of the district to disaster relief. The Gates School will be collecting donations Monday, October 2, 2017- Tuesday, October 10, 2017.

Hello From the Health Office

State Mandated Health Screenings

The Gates school health office will be starting state mandated health screenings (vision, hearing, height, and weight) soon. These will continue through the Fall. Feel free to contact the school nurses with any questions or concerns.

Make a Plan

With the recent weather in Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico, it's a good time to create or review preparedness plans for your family. These should include plans for shelter, evacuation, and communication. For more information please go to the Make a Plan website.

Hoping everyone is settling in to the school routine.

Best wishes,

Diane and Tory

Shop and Support Gates

Donelan's Receipts for Education

Donelan's Supermarkets proudly sponsors the Register Tapes for Education Program to make a difference in local communities. Simply collect Donelan's receipts and deposited them in the collection center outside the Gates school office. These receipts are then converted into points and redeemed for equipment and supplies for Gates School.

AmazonSmile

Shopping on AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support Gates school. Just sign up at AmazonSmile and register Paul P. Gates School PTO as your designated charity. Then every time you shop, AmazonSmile donates 0.5% of your purchase price to the Gates PTO. Don't forget to bookmark the website.

Box Tops for Education

The Box Tops for Education program is an easy way to earn cash for Gates school. Simply clip Box Tops on hundreds of products at your local grocery store and place them in the collection box outside of the Gates school office. For each one, Gates receives 10 cents and it really adds up.

"This Week at Gates" is distributed at the beginning of each week. If you have a submission you'd like to have included in the weekly email, please be sure to email it to the Senior Co-chair Naomi Phaneuf by noon on Wednesday.

This newsletter was created solely for the purpose of communicating school related events to parents and students.